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SOVIET ARMS PLAN PROTESTED BY U.S.

GENEVA, March 17—The United States outlined today four major objections to the Soviet Union's proposal that all but a limited number of missiles be scrapped at the outset of the projected disarmament pro­gram.

Adrian S. Fisher, the United States delegate, said at the 17­nation disarmament conference here that the Soviet Union was seeking by its offer to “have its cake and eat it too.” Under the Soviet proposal, the limited number of missiles would be re­tained by the two major nuclear nowers.

The Soviet proposal Mr. Fisher said, would result in “radical shifts” in the present balance of military power. The United States delegate also denounced the lack of a specification for inspection ar­rangements to assure that mis­siles were not retained in de­fiance of an accord.

“In this area of prime im­portance to national security,” Mr. Fisher said, “no responsible official could accept the unveri­fied word of another.”

The American representative strongly objected to the linking of a missile proposal to a de­mand that all troops be with­drawn from foreign soil and foreign military bases aban­doned at the start of disarma­ment.